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I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone (simonwillison.net)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it's being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don't trust plenty of others, and apple still does

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Great story.

Even if anecdotal fuck all of that better safe than sorry.

My dad use to say that Facebook listened to him back in the 2010s. We blew him off as conspiracy nut.

He would say diamond ring diamond ring diamond ring and then all his ads would change next day. We blew him off as conspriatorial and now the algorithm is common knowledge.

Who knows. Scary.